Tell Me About It: I love her but I don’t know if I can deal with such complications PROBLEM: Approximately one year ago, I met a gorgeous girl online and we started dating. The three months that followed was the most intense and overwhelming experience of my life, and we moved in together very quickly. I am in […]
Tell Me About It: I do pay most of the bills and would like him to get a steady job but I’m distraught by my parents’ attitude PROBLEM: I am 34 years’ of age, well-educated and have a successful career and great lifestyle. Earlier this year, I took three months off work to travel with my […]
Tell Me About It: ‘When I put a picture on social media nobody makes nice comments’ PROBLEM: I am 21 years of age and while I don’t have a fear of relationships, I just can’t get into one. As I was growing up boys never tried to chat me up, they always moved very quickly to […]
Tell Me About It: ‘Since her death, I’ve revisited incidents and feelings I had as a child’ PROBLEM: My mother, who passed away some years ago, was very demanding and difficult to get on with. I was never good enough. Any problems I shared were turned around and I was accused of hurting her – creating […]
Tell Me About It: ‘Life in a family with a disability is a never-ending struggle for support’ PROBLEM: My son is 20, non-verbal with autism and intellectual disability. My siblings are long gone and not part of our lives. For a while there was an odd phone call, where I was supposed to listen to their […]
Tell Me About It: Even though she cannot articulate it, I think she is jealous of his new baby boy PROBLEM: I am married with three children. My first child, a daughter, was from a relationship I had when I was in university. The relationship was over by the time she was born. However, her father […]
Tell Me About It: Plan to emigrate and open cafe in Spain with lover hinges on trust PROBLEM: I am a woman in my late 50s and I have one son in his mid-20s. I have always found it hard to trust people and the only long-standing relationship that I ever had was with my son’s father. […]
Tell Me About It: My bosses gave me no sympathy when my alcoholic husband died, leaving me in a lot of debt PROBLEM: I am a middle-aged woman. Three years ago my husband passed away suddenly leaving me in a lot of debt. On reflection now, I can see that he was an alcoholic and had […]
Tell Me About It: He was never really there for us as children and he regrets it now but my mother and siblings are still very angry PROBLEM: My parents separated when I was a small child and my mother worked very hard to bring up the children on her own. My father’s job meant he travelled […]
Tell Me About It: I find myself staying in a relationship that is impacting on my emotional health and I feel so desperate PROBLEM: I believe I am stuck in a cycle of being hurt and ignored in my marriage and I just feel the timing is never quite right to leave. I worry I won’t cope […]